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dolt

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5
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4
Pronunciation
/dɒlt/(UK)
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/dɒlt/(UK) · /dəʊlt/ · /dɔʊlt/ · /doʊlt/(US)

Definition of dolt

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory)A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
    “O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]”
    “Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]”
    “This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.”
    “Those who loathe “Jackass” — which brought the world beer enemas and urine snow cones and thrust its merry band of dolts into reptile lairs and shark-infested waters — have called it disgusting and irresponsible: an incitement to copycat idiocy, if not a sign of the end of Western civilization.”
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noun

  1. (derogatory)A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
    “O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]”
    “Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]”
    “This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.”
    “Those who loathe “Jackass” — which brought the world beer enemas and urine snow cones and thrust its merry band of dolts into reptile lairs and shark-infested waters — have called it disgusting and irresponsible: an incitement to copycat idiocy, if not a sign of the end of Western civilization.”

verb

  1. (obsolete)To behave foolishly.
  2. To fool; to trick
    “Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted”

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Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

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